138 ENCHANTING REFLECTIONS OF A ROMANTIC ERA... THE VICTORIAN LADIES A swish of skirt, a coy smile and a special old world charm. Lovely ladies look as delicate as the porcelain from which they are fashioned. But they, like their real-life counterparts of long ago, have a delightful spirit all their own. From Kaiser of Bavaria in a limited edition of 2500 Imported by Ebeling 8- Reuss. $500 each. .."t ' . . .},t;, If(- ,:"'í" :E NG & BUSS (ompa y Importers of Fine Chtna Glassware and Gtftware since 1;. . 1 t 1 West VaJley Road : x 1. · - yon PA 19333 Ava table at f.ne stores.. Write fo Kaiser color -cataJ. .. ,,g Ak kÂfStt'2 POlCfU.I Ia,. I West...., S IICI 1112 "). ........ "> OCTODER 9, 1978 now called .L-\lberr Grounds-as the locus of the state championships dud 'llso of the big national and interna- tiondl events when It was Victoria's turn to hold them (As it happened, the first J)avis Cup challenge round held in Australia had been played at \AT arehousemen's Grounds, in 1908.) Koo} ong, which covers more than sey- enteen acres of a leafy suburb about four miles from the center of IVlel- bourne, started with temporar} stànds around its two centel courts Then, in 192 i, it undertook the constructJon of the lower part of an oval concrete stadium. 1"hJS accommodated about four thousand, and additions made in 1934 and 1 9 5 3 brought its seating capacit} to about twelve thousand vVhenever Koo} ong ha been chosen as the host for a l)avis Cup challenge round, n10re rows have been added at the top of the stands, as at \Vhite City. A crowd of twenty-two thousand turned out, for example, on each of the three days of the ] 953 challenge round, when Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall were the heroes of a thrilling chaHenge round. Besides Kooyong, which has put on five challenge rounds, and \\Thite City, which has put on four, as well as one final round (after the Davis Cup for- mat was changed, in 19i2), there are three other prominent Australian cen- ters of tennis which should be mèn- tioned. They are situated in Adelaide, Brisbane, and Perth, the capital cities of the states of South Australia, Queens- land, and \'T estern Australia, respec- tively. The one in Adelaide, which is operated by the South Australian Lawn Tennis Association, and which borders on the \Var Memorial Drive, is com- monl) referred to either as Memori(;ll Drive or simply as the Drive. It cur- rently has thirty-four grass courts, of which thirty had been established by 1922. It was not until 1939, however, that the first stands in what became the cluh's "stadium area"-it is built around two courts-went up. These cuurt" dTe now enclosed by a quad- rangle of stands-three of them per- manent-which normally holds sixt}- five hundred spectators but, if neces- sary, can be extended to take care of as many as twenty thousand, as it dId during the 1956 challenge round Four challenge rounds in all, the fil st in 1952, have been held at the l)rive Another three have been staged at thè Milton Tennis Courts-Milton is 1- suburb of Brisbane-which is where the top events are played in Queensland. The histor} of the Milton club goes back to 1895, when two grass courts wele built on a reclaImed dump.